Combination Sports and Street Suits Made in Germany (Feb, 1930)

Combination Sports and Street Suits Made in Germany
A SUIT which is equally suitable for street wear and sports has been innovated by the tailors of Berlin, Germany. The change can be performed in a few seconds. Some Germans are partial to the one-piece sports suit and enterprising tailors schemed a one-piece suit with belt and lapels. From that step it was comparatively simple to arrange a strip-off garment to form the lower part of the coat. This coat-tail garment with pockets is buttoned on just beneath the belt to make the sports suit adequate for street wear. Various stages of the transformation are pictured at the left. A similar garb for women has been devised with knickers and skirt.

It reminds me somewhat of WWII British Battledress, although that was two piece.

@Jari – Of course he looks different, when he takes his “skirt” off its exercise time so he loses 10 lbs by default!

Jari says: July 5, 20113:52 pm

@Hirudinea – And it’s also a cure for receding hairline! And changes your age about 10 years. Clearly made in Q-branch for 007. SMERSH-agent during a chase: “Hey, old fellow, did you see younger Englishman going by?”

Charlene says: July 5, 20114:40 pm

“A similar garb for women has been devised with knickers and skirt”. This had already been invented. “Rationals” were a combination of knickers and skirt devised in England in the 1880s and popularized around the Anglosphere shortly afterwards.